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A side-by-side comparison of NGC 628 (Phantom Galaxy) images taken from the James Webb Space Telescope  and Spritzer Space Telescope  show a remarkable increase in clarity and detail.

SST CR: NASA/JPL-CALTECH; JWST CR: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI

The images were all taken using JWST’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum and takes better-than-Hubble wide-field astrophotography images.